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I made this a top level post because I think people here might want to discuss it but you can remove it if it doesn't meet your standards.
Edit: removed my opinion of Scott from the body
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Trivially, places that allow RPF tend to get unpleasant pretty fast, in ways far broader than the RPF itself. That might be a correlation sorta thing, but it's still the sorta correlation that winks-and-points.
It is, almost by definition, not merely spam or meaningless spam, but high-word-count meaningless spam. Eg, the above is a 160 words of self-described shitpost, and even by rat-sphere standards low-information-density.
Saying false (or knowingly made-up) things is bad epistemology in this sort of context. You and I might know that Sam Hyde hasn't committed the most recent mass shooting, or that this was a joke; but there is no level of drama parody that someone won't use in a We Got 'Em sense.
I didn't need that mental image. Which is funny on its own, fair. But a broader community standard of seeing who can wreck the greatest psychic damage in paragraph form isn't a great way to encourage understanding and debate. I'm not gonna say that the weird furry side automatically wins, since I know what makes rDrama cheer, but it's the sort of arms race that leads to civilian casualties.
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